Stream 1

Critical National Infrastructure

• Protecting critical national infrastructure from network interruption and damage
• Investment in improved cyber security
• GCHQ monitoring of private networks
• The development of mechanisms to identify scientific and technical experts in industry and academia in relation to cyber attacks
• Reducing risk, capitalising on opportunities and improving decision making through skills awareness and education
• Safeguarding cyber infrastructure within cloud computing networks
• Protecting telecommunication infrastructure from cyber threats
• A new Cyber Infrastructure Team within BIS
• Cyber security challenges in the transition to the smart grid

 

Chair:

Stuart Laughlin, Head of Editorial, Public Technology.net (Confirmed)

Speakers:

Madeleine Alessandri, Deputy Director, CPNI

Bruce Schneier, Chief Security Technology Officer, BT (Confirmed)

Representative, Information Economy Directorate, BIS (Confirmed)

Tony Phipps, EDF Energy - Nuclear

 

 

Stream 2

The National Cyber Security Programme

• The National Cyber Security Programme
• Technology skills for future security
• Regional e-crime units
• Future of the Police Central e-Crime Unit, and the future role of the National Crime Agency
• Strategies for improving cyber preparedness and responses capabilities with international partnerships and alliances
• The theft of intellectual property with both commercial and national security implications
• Sponsorship of long-term cyber security research to build and maintain excellence
• The Home Office National Cyber Crime Strategy

 

Chair:

Gordon Corera, BBC Security Correspondent and Telegraph Journalist (Confirmed)

Speakers:

Mike St John Green, Deputy Director, Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance (Confirmed)

Charlie McMurdie, Detective Superintendent, Head of Economic and Cyber Crime at the Met Police (Confirmed)

Judy Baker, Head, Cyber Security Challenge (Confirmed)

Chris Mortlock, Head of Live Services, Security and Risk, HMRC (Confirmed)

 

Stream 3

Cyber Security - Banking and the Financial Sector

• Countering financial crime risks in information security
• Information Security risk management relating to electronically-held data
• Ensuring strong cyber security, effective data protection and stringent protection for customers
• Potential cyber attacks on stock exchanges
• How can financial institutions collaborate to guard against future cyberattacks?
• Secure, resilient, and reliable systems to ensure seamless operations and maintain public confidence in monetary systems
• What are the latest cyber attack methodologies and what vulnerabilities do they exploit?

 

Chair:

TBA

Speakers:

James Snook, Head of Financial Sector Resilience and Market Infrastructure Contingency Planning, HM Treasury (Confirmed)

John Milne, Sector Manager for Financial Stability, FSA (Confirmed)

Dr Richard Horne (Confirmed)

Chris Pilling, Head of HSBC Customer Security Development